WODEHOUSE, P.G. Quick Service.

The Portrait Plot

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Quick Service. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1940.

8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Fenwick with printed price 7/6 to spine; pp. 252, [4 (publisher’s advertisements)]; wear to edges and chipping with loss to front panel (c. 8 x 22 mm) and spine (c. 9 x 12 mm), closed tears, slightly cocked, pushing to spine ends; offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers; very good.

First edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s comic novel that follows James Duff’s schemes to obtain a portrait by making a deal with the young Lord Holbeton.

The novel was first serialised in America in The Saturday Evening Post from 4 May to 22 June 1940, with illustrations by Gilbert Bundy. It was not serialised in the UK. It was first published in the UK on 4 October 1940, and later in the US in book form on 27 December 1940.

McIlvaine A63a.

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